On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:52:00AM +0100, Yann Golanski wrote:
> Quoth Philip Hazel on Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:35:49 +0100
> > > Why did the old exim 3 book have an aye-aye on the front? O-Reilly used
> > > to have a reason for using each animal. Any of you old timers know?
> >
> > They never told me.
>
> Looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aye-aye and it offers no clue
> whatsoever. However, I found the following: "To the Malagasy people,
> the Aye-aye is magical, and is believed to bring death to the village it
> appears in" in http://www.thewildones.org/Animals/ayeAyeNH.html. Well,
> I can see why Exim can be called magical but what about the death
> thing?... Once you use Exim, you consider all other mailers dead?...
Maybe it's not meant to be positive...? "exim kills the server it's
running on".
That would explain two things:
* Why they didn't tell anyone
* Why they chose not to publish the Exim v4 book
;-)
(just kidding, of course)
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